Brutality 

Table of Contents

Out of Place

• Philip Roth, Nature Boy

  David Gessner

Fiction

• The Tree

  Benjamin Percy

• •Opposition in All Things

  Shawn Vestal

• The Wreckers

  George Makana Clark

• •The God Spot

  Nicholas Montemarano

• •Laidlaw

  Christopher Feliciano Arnold

Nonfiction

• Birding the Border

  Andrew Furman

• Town

  Robert Vivian

• Geographical Solutions: [A map of the Middle West with insets, past and current]

  Barrie Jean Borich

Drama

• •Psychos Never Dream

  Denis Johnson

Mount Rushmore: A Triptych

• The Book of the Dead Man (Mount Rushmore)

  Marvin Bell

• Mount Rushmore and the Hells Angels

  Dorianne Laux

• A View from the Mountain

  Jeanne Emmons

Poetry

• In Early Spring

  Robert Cording

• Arctos/Antarktikos

  Elizabeth Bradfield

• Young Girls

  Julie Larios

• Your Dad Never Did, in the End,

  Todd Boss

• Two Women, Drinking

  Sherman Alexie

• Plastic Man

  Mark Wisniewski

• Still Life

  Bruce Cohen

Interview

• A Conversation with Robert Kunzig

  Josie Glausiusz

Reclamation

• It’s All Gold: Eudora Welty’s “The Wide Net”

  Antonya Nelson

Field Study

• •In Between the Dream and the Doorknob:
  On Jonathan Lethem’s Fictions

  Rivka Galchen

Maps

• How We Got Here

  Bret Anthony Johnston

The Strip

• There Once Was a Girl

  Jamie Tanner

Art

• Domesticated

  Amy Stein